The short-term interests of asset managers may be trumping the long-term interests of their institutional investor clients when it comes to stewardship, which has lead UK pension funds to call for urgent action.
More than nine in 10 investors (94 per cent) believe corporate reporting on sustainability performance contains unsupported claims, according to PwC’s 2023 Global Investor Survey, launched today.
ETF providers continue to overlook stewardship responsibilities with proxy voting “muddled and concentrated”, new research reveals.
Invest Europe has published its Pan-European Market Sentiment Survey 2023, conducted in partnership with global management consultancy firm, Arthur D. Little, focusing on the private equity industry.
Invesco has released the findings of its eighth annual Invesco Global Systematic Investing Study.
US institutional investors are increasingly looking to private assets opportunities to invest sustainably, according to global asset manager Schroders, which today released the US findings of its Institutional Investor Study.
Climate change could wipe out the value of 50 per cent of the value of some institutional investors’ infrastructure portfolios before 2050, yet these risks are neither fully understood nor properly priced in, according to the EDHEC Infrastructure and Private Assets Institute.
Investment consultantcy Bfinance has published a report looking at the growth of Global Emerging Markets (GEM) ex-China equity strategies. Research has identified 45 asset managers now running live GEM ex-China portfolios – a significant increase from just three in 2017.
Multi-manager pioneer, Mediolanum, has marked its 25th anniversary and news that its EMEA fund assets delegated to third-party managers have reached EUR2.19 trillion with data from the 2023 Allfunds Data Analytics (ADA) new report which highlights the continued growth of sub-advised funds in the funds industry.
The United Kingdom is the seventh most financially inclusive market out of 42 markets analysed globally, according to the 2023 Global Financial Inclusion Index from Principal Financial Group and the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr), rising seven places year-on-year.
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